Vactor truck, vacuum truck, combination truck, vac truck. Same machine. If someone told you that you need a vacuum truck on site, this is the service.

What makes it worth its own page is that it does two jobs at once. A high pressure water jet breaks material loose, and a high powered vacuum lifts it straight out into a debris tank. Nothing gets pushed downstream to become somebody else's blockage, and nothing gets left in a pile on your site.

We run vactor work across Buckley, Pierce County and the wider Western Washington area. Family owned, based in Buckley since 2016, with more than 30 years of combined experience on the crew.

Jetting alone moves a blockage. It does not remove it.

That distinction gets skipped a lot, and it is the reason some sites keep having the same problem in a slightly different place every year. Water pressure will clear the pipe you are standing over by relocating the material further along the line. Three months later it settles somewhere with less fall and you are calling someone again.

With vacuum recovery running alongside the jet, the material comes out of the system entirely. The debris tank holds it, and it leaves site with us for proper disposal.



Our position: on any line that has blocked once, jetting without recovery is not a repair, it is a postponement.

We can put a camera down the line before or after the work, and on anything that has blocked more than once we would push you to do it.



Here is why. A line that keeps filling usually has a reason, and the reason is structural. A partial collapse, a joint that has separated, a belly where the fall was lost during backfill, roots coming in at a penetration. Cleaning that line will work. It will also work again next year, and the year after, because you are paying to manage a symptom.

Ever cleaned the same drain three times in two years? That is a camera job, not a cleaning job.

Footage is yours. We document what we find with measurements, and if we think you should spend money on a repair instead of another clean, we will say so.

Not every line tolerates the same jet. Old concrete, clay, cast iron and modern HDPE all behave differently, and pressure that is right for one will damage another.



We set pressure for what we are actually working in, which is one reason we assess before we start rather than arriving with a fixed setting. It is a small thing that separates a cleaned line from a cracked one.

Free estimates, free on site evaluations.

What sets the price:

Volume of material. It is billed on what comes out, and disposal is a real line item.

Material type. Sand vacuums fast. Compacted grit and organic sludge do not.

Line length and diameter. Long runs and small bores take longer.

Access. The truck needs to reach, or hose runs get long and progress slows.

Camera work. Worth it on repeat problems, unnecessary on a routine clean.

Emergency callouts price differently from scheduled work, which is the practical argument for booking routine cleaning before the wet season rather than after something backs up in November.

Vactor truck drain cleaning for drain-specific work

Catch basin cleaning as a scheduled service rather than a callout

Storm drain cleaning and maintenance for the wider line network

Oil water separator cleaning, which uses the same equipment

Hydro excavation when the job is soil rather than pipe

Retention pond cleaning and maintenance for pond sediment removal